Biblical Hebrew Forum

[GregStffrd AT aol.com]

In my statement to Henry:

<< So this helps see how the ending of the Tetragrammaton might have appeared 
(-yah or -yahu). But if we had an initial yahw- followed by a -yah or -yahu 
suffix, where is the evidence that we would not have a middle vowel, as we do 
in ALL other compound names that incorporate an initial yahw- element? >>


The second line should have read, "But if we had an initial yah- followed by 
a -WH suffix, where is the evidence that we would not have a middle vowel 
between yah- and  -WH, as we do in ALL other compound names of this sort? 
Indeed, when yah- is used as the initial element in compound names it always 
contains the middle vowel, and that was Buchanan's point.

Greg Stafford